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Aaron Gullickson

I am a sociologist and demographer who specializes in quantitative methods. Most of my research is focused on issues of racial inequality and categorization. I am particularly interested in integrating insights from the study of racial inequality where racial categories are often treated as static and given, with work on racial boundary formation where the dynamic nature of racial categorization and identification is the object of study. Within this general area of interest, I study many particular topics such as interracial marriage, racial identification, and the life outcomes of mixed race individuals, across place and time.

Employment

Associate Professor of Sociology

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR

Current - 2014

Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR

2014 - 2007

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Columbia University

New York City, NY

2007 - 2004

Education

I was the first student to graduate from UC Berkeley’s joint PhD program in Sociology and Demography.

PhD, Sociology and Demography

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

2004

MA, Sociology

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

2001

MA, Demography

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

1999

BA, Sociology

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

1998

Minor, Statistics

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

1998

Publications

Comments on Conceptualizing and Measuring the Exchange of Beauty and Status

American Sociological Review 82(5):1093-1099

N/A

2017

Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference

American Behavioral Scientist 60(4):498-518

N/A

2016

Patterns of racial and educational assortative mating in Brazil

Demography 51(3):835-856

N/A

2014

  • Co-authored with Florencia Torche

A Mulatto Escape Hatch? Examining Evidence of U.S. Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era

Demography 50(5):1921-1942.

N/A

2013

  • Co-authored with Aliya Saperstein
  • Winner of the 2013 IPUMS Research Award for Best Article using IPUMS-US data

Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification

Social Science Research 40(2):498-512

N/A

2011

  • Co-authored with Ann Morning

Comment: An Endorsement of Exchange Theory in Mate Selection

American Journal of Sociology 115(4):1243-1251

N/A

2010

  • Co-authored with Vincent Kang Fu

Education and Black/White Interracial Marriage

Demography 43(4):673-689

N/A

2006

The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differential in Post-Civil Rights America

Social Forces 84(1): 157-180

N/A

2005

Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Slavonia

in Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 277-306

N/A

2005

  • Co-authored with Eugene A. Hammel

Kinship Structure and Survival: Maternal Mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian Border, 1750-1898

Population Studies 58(2):145-159

N/A

2004

  • Co-authored with Eugene A. Hammel

Population-based prediction of trauma volumes at a level I trauma centre

Injury 35(12):1239-1247

N/A

2004

  • Co-authored with Greg J. Beilman, Jodie H. Taylor, Lisa Job, and Jesse Moen.

Grants Awarded

The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources and Urban Poverty

National Science Foundation Grant SBR #0648320, $104,452

N/A

2007

  • Co-Principal Investigator with Nicole Marwell

The Development and Diffusion of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes in the United States, 1800-1967

Columbia University Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, $3000

N/A

2006

Socioeconomic and Kinship Factors in Infant and Child Mortality in Historical Slavonia

National Science Foundation Grant SBR #0514291, $32,367

N/A

2005

  • Co-Principal Investigator with Eugene A. Hammel

Recent Invited Talks

Essential Measures: Race, Ancestry, and Social Difference

Paper presented at the Demography Training Seminar, Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

N/A

2015

Recent Conference Presentations

Changes in Pan-Ethnicity and Racial Boundaries in the United States based on Interracial Marriage Patterns, 1980-2018

Poster presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting

N/A

2021

Courses Taught

I primarily teach on statistical analysis and race/ethnicity at the graduate and undergraduate level. For my statistics courses, I have developed an open access textbook that teaches statistics using R. The textbook is available here.

Sociological Research Methods

Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

  • A two-quarter sequence in graduate level statistics for first-year graduate students.
  • The course focuses heavily on practical issues of analysis using the R programming language.
  • This courses uses my open-access statistics textbook available here.

Statistical Analysis in Sociology

Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

  • Required statistics course for undergraduage sociology majors.
  • This courses uses my open-access statistics textbook available here.

Race and Ethnicity

Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

  • Undergraduate course which provides introductory and foundational concepts for the study of race and ethnicity.

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

  • An upper level undergraduate course that focuses on specific topics in the field of race and ethnicity. I have taught on such topics as segregation, mixed race in the Americas, and whiteness.

Issues in Family Sociology

Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

  • Upper level undergraduate course focusing on particular topics in famly sociology. I have taught it on the changing demography of the family.

Global Population

Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

  • Introductory undergraduate course on demography and global population trends.

Student Advising

Michelle Alexander, Playing Gods

PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

N/A

Katie Warden, Advocacy Strategies of Parents of Children with Disabilities

PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2020

Alberto Lioy, Electoral Revolutions: A Comparative Study of Rapid Changes in Voter Turnout

PhD Dissertation Committee, Political Science, University of Oregon

N/A

2020

Natasha Erickson, Sociology of Health

Chair of Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2020

Drew McNichols, Essays in Labor Economics

PhD Dissertation Committee, Economics, University of Oregon

N/A

2019

Nathan Biemiller, Essays in Behavioral Economics

PhD Dissertation Committee, Economics, University of Oregon

N/A

2019

Mauricio Betancourt, The effect of Cuban agroecology in mitigating the metabolic rift: a quantitative approach to Latin American food production

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2019

Tongy Wu. Coding Productivity: Negotiation of Ethnicized Masculine Boundaries in High-Tech Corporations

PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2018

Mirranda Willette, Food and Society

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2018

Natasha Erickson, Labeling and Delinquency: Assessing the Relationship between Special Education and Gifted Labels and Post High School Arrests

Chair of MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2018

MeCherri Abedi-Anim. African Immigrant Identities: Black Identity and Racial Solidarity in Post-Civil Rights America

Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2017

Shih-Chi Lin. Structural Changes and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in Post-reform China

Chair of PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2017

Martha Camargo, Reinvigorating the Contact Hypothesis

PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2017

Uyen Nguyen, Vietnamese American Racialization and Ethnic Organizations

PhD Dissertation Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2017

Erica G. Birk, Essays in Health and Labor

PhD Dissertation Committee, Economics, University of Oregon

N/A

2017

Joshua Melton, Beyond One-Size Fits All: Using Heterogeneous Models to Estimate School Performance in Mathematics

PhD Dissertation Committee, Education, University of Oregon

N/A

2016

Kathryn Norton-Smith, Race/Ethnicity

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2016

Daniel Silberman, The Punitive Hippies: Racial Group-Threat and Criminal Justice Outcomes in Oregon

Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2016

Katie Warden, Race/Ethnicity

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2015

Anders Herreid-O’Neill, The Hyper-White City: A Critique of Gentrification-Displacement Theory

Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2015

Shauna Dyer, Late to School: Public Transfers and the Educational Opportunities of Poor Mothers

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2014

Justin Fontenot, 3-2-1-Go! Barbells, Paleo, ! and Muscles!

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2014

Kathleen Thomas, Criminology

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2013

Rob Molinar, Social Stratification

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2012

MeCherri Tarver, Race/Ethnicity and Migration

Chair of Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2012

Tongyu Wu, One Store, Two Fates: Urban and Rural Workers in the Beijing Retail Stores

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2012

Leslie Fulbright, A coffin or a cell: An Urban Family Portrait.

MA Paper Committee, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon

N/A

2012

Shi-Chi Lin, Marriage and Family

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2011

Uyen L. Nguyen, Vietnamese Americans and Ethnic Authenticity at a Culture Camp for Co-ethnic transracial adoptees

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2011

Ellen Hackenmueller, Latino Lockup: Hispanic Cultural Identity and Other Factors Influencing Successful Post-Incarceration Community Re-Entry

Honors Thesis Advisor, Clark Honors College and Department of International Studies University of Oregon

N/A

2011

Kathleen Thomas, Toward a Theory of Transnationalized Transition

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2010

Matt Friesen, Contesting Symbolic Violence: Counter Recruitment and Resistance to the U.S. Military in Public Education

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2010

Shih-Chi Lin, Is there really a demand for sons?

MA Paper Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2009

Maggie Price, The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: The Effects of Age at Parental Divorce on Marital Stability in Adulthood

Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2009

Yusuke Makino, Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes: Life Chances of the Poor

Honors Thesis Advisor, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2009

Keith Appleby, Statistical Methods

Comprehensive Exam Committee, Sociology, University of Oregon

N/A

2008

Service, Departmental

Joint Curriculum Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2021 - 2020

Director of Graduate Studies

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2020 - 2014

  • Received Excellence Award for Director of Graduate Studies from the Graduate School at the University of Oregon in 2018

Admissions and Award Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2020 - 2014

  • Chair

Merit Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2018 - 2017

Executive Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2017 - 2016

Colloquium Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2014 - 2012

  • Co-Chair

Faculty Development Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2013 - 2011

Colloquium Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2010 - 2008

Joint Curriculum Committee

Sociology Department, University of Oregon

N/A

2008 - 2007

Admissions Committee

Sociology Department, Columbia University

N/A

2007 - 2006

Graduate Student Travel Grant Coordinator

Sociology Department, Columbia University

N/A

2007 - 2004

Service, University

University Senator

University of Oregon

N/A

Current - 2019

Excellence Awards Selection Committee

Graduate School, University of Oregon

N/A

2019 - 2018

Undergraduate Research Award Committee

University Libraries, University of Oregon

N/A

2019 - 2016

Communites for Accelerating the Impact of Teaching -Teaching Online

Teaching Engagement Program, University of Oregon

N/A

2018 - 2017

Advisory Committee Member

Social Sciences Instructional Lab, University of Oregon

N/A

2011 - 2010

Service, Professional

I have reviewed manuscripts for American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Demographic Research, Demography, Historical Methods, Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Sociological Perspectives.

Editor

Socius, American Sociological Association

N/A

Current - 2019

  • Socius is the open-access journal of the American Sociological Association.
  • Co-Editor with CJ Pascoe and Ryan Light

Selection Committee, James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award

Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association

N/A

2019 - 2018

Consulting Editor

American Journal of Sociology

N/A

2016 - 2014

Advisory Editor

Sociological Perspectives, American Sociological Association

N/A

2013 - 2012

Advisory Editor

Sociological Problems

N/A

2013 - 2011